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50 Cards in this Set
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Earth was center of the universe
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Geocentric Theory
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Two of the Greek thinkers to come up with the Geocentric Theory
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Aristotle and Ptolemy
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Took place between 1550's and 1700's explosions such as scientific method
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Scientific Revolution
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During the scientific revolution, the blank allowed for ideas to spread much quicker.
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printing press
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Heliocentric theory stated the sun is what?
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the center of the universe
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Came up with the Heliocentric theory
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Copernicus
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Improved on Copernicus's theory and made telescopes better
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Galileo Galilee
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Came up with the Scientific Method
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Francis Bacon
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Bacon came up also with the what?
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experimental method
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Came up with Analytical Geometry
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Francis Descartes
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what two things did analytical geometry combine
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algebra and geometry
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Isac Newton explained...
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Universal Gravity
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Universal Gravity stated objects attract what?
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other objects
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Invented first microscope
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Zacharias Janseen
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Observed bacteria in tooth scrapings
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Anton Von Leeuwenhoek
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Invented barometer
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Evangelista Torricelli
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Thermometer using mercury was invented by him
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Fahrenheit
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Andres Celsius was able to do what with his thermometer
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Show freezing at 0 degrees
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Dissected humans for biology
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Andreas Vesalius
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Gave small pox vaccines
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Edward Jenner
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Robert Boyle,Modern Chemistry father, came up with this law
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Boyle's Law
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This law states volume, temp., and pressure of gas affect each other.
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Boyle's Law
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Voltaire believed
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the freedom of religon and speech
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Voltaire was a writer of
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satire
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Mary Wollstonecraft pushed for
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women's equality
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A vindication of the Rights of Women was written by whom
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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He believed abolishment of tourture and capatial punishment
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Beccaria
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Beccaria wrote-
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Of Crime and Punishment
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Montesquieu believed in a seperation of...
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powers
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Montesquieu intiated this goverment policy
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checks and balances
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Montesquieu wrote this book
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Spirit of Laws
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Beccaria believed in trials to be
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speedy
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Rousseau wrote what book?
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The social Contract
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he believed in individual freedom and inspired leaders of the French Revolution
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Rousseau
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Civilization occording to Jean Jaques, is this and believed in what kind of gov't.
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corrupted and direct democracy
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John Locke was more positive and believed in these three things
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life, liberty, and property
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John Locke thought gov't was suppose to do what with peoples freedoms
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protect them
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Locke wrote two treaties on what
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Goverment
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Thomas Hobbes believed in this type of goverment
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absoulte monarchy
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Hobbes truly thought due to Enlish Civil War that people were
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wicked and selfish
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Was king during the American Revolution
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George III
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This stated the colonist couldn't trade with any other country except for Britian
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Navigation Act
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French and Indian War brought awarness that colonist wanted to do what
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move west but england said no
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The first battle of the American Revolution
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Lexington and Concord
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Was written in July, 4th, 1776 and was inspired by John Locke
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Decleration of Independence
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How did the British people effect the way the war turned
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Asked it to stop because they were paying for it
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The colonist were motivated because why
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defense of homeland
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British were what to the colonist- a reason they lost
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overconfident
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A reason the British lost being so far away
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very costly
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In 1787, this made the constitution
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Constitutional Convention
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